“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” ---Tom Lehrer

“To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.” ---P.T. Barnum

“Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don’t get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.” ---Chris Raschka

“How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.” ---Philip Treacy

“A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.” ---Mitch Hedberg

“A cocktail can be made by the bartender. But the cocktail also can be made by the chef.” ---Jose Andres

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. --Josh Billings

“Then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils.” ---William Wordsworth

“Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.” ---Lady Montaque

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. The story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” ---Patrick Rothfuss